My Favourite Painting: Joanna Jensen
The Childs Farm founder on a 'bruiser' bull.
The Childs Farm founder on a 'bruiser' bull.
Over the centuries, miniatures sealed marriages, captured stolen glances and — in one unforgettable instance — tipped the balance power in Tudor England. Huon Mallalieu delves into the history of these often small and always perfectly formed portraits.
Far more than a fancy of old ladies, unoccupied hands and evenings are never a problem for enthusiasts of needlepoint. Matthew Dennison takes a look.
The actor Ashley Campbell on a work that 'explodes with vivid, almost graffiti-like strokes'.
The Cotswold Auction Company's February 6 sale features some surprising lots from the Second World War, the world of sport and many many stamps.
Items belonging to the first female Speaker of the House of Commons will be auctioned off for charity next week
A new exhibition from the National Trust shows how Britain's greatest Prime Minister would celebrate his birthday with some massive cakes
Keith Halstead of the Royal Countryside Fund chooses a scenic image by Edward Seago.
CLA President Victoria Vyvyan selects a religious engraving by Albrecht Dürer.
Not just a bronze sculpture by a modern French master, but a bronze sculpture which opens to reveal a whisky bar. Carla Passino found out more from the art dealer who fell so hopelessly in love with the piece that he was desperate to buy it himself.
Melanie Vandenbrouck, chief curator at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, chooses a Jadé Fadojutimi image.
November's major auctions witnessed some truly extraordinary sales — not least thanks to the sale of the collection of Emily Fisher Landau. Huon Mallalieu takes a look.
The award-winning Nature writer and regular Country Life contributor John Lewis-Stempel chooses a bucolic scene with quite probably the longest title of any artwork ever to feature on this page.
Gavin Plumley, author and cultural historian, selects an unusual canvas with two painters credited.
Ever since a craze for house portraits reached Britain in the 17th century, great artists such as J. M. W. Turner have been producing sweeping vistas of stately Edens, observes Michael Prodger.
Martha Lytton Cobbold of Historic Houses selects a magnificent depiction of the power of nature.
The journalist and art historian Nick Trend chooses a striking Jan van Eyck portrait.
Extreme weather has long loomed large in the artist’s imagination. Michael Prodger celebrates the poetic beauty of Nature’s all-consuming fury.
Jamie Hambro picks Low Life by Edwin Landseer.